The New Wonderful Museum, and Extraordinary Magazine:: Being a Complete Repository of All the Wonders, Curiosities, and Rarities of Nature and Art, from the Beginning of the World to the Present Year ... Including, Among the Greatest Variety of Other Valuable Matter in this Line of Literature (from an Illustrated Edition of the Rev. Mr. James Granger's Celebrated Biographical History) Memoirs and Portraits of the Most Singular and Remarkable Persons ...R. S. Kirby, 1807 - Characters and characteristics |
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Page 2189
... first King of all England , to the Present Time . Confifting of a great Variety of very eccentric Characters famous for long Life , Cou- zage , Cowardice , extraordinary Strength , Avarice , aftonishing Fortitude , as well as genuine ...
... first King of all England , to the Present Time . Confifting of a great Variety of very eccentric Characters famous for long Life , Cou- zage , Cowardice , extraordinary Strength , Avarice , aftonishing Fortitude , as well as genuine ...
Page 2197
... first divifion , he fled as foon as attacked ; and the order of the garter was after- wards taken from him for this inftance of cowardice . The flight of Sir John , left the lords Talbot , Scales , and Hungerford , together with Sir ...
... first divifion , he fled as foon as attacked ; and the order of the garter was after- wards taken from him for this inftance of cowardice . The flight of Sir John , left the lords Talbot , Scales , and Hungerford , together with Sir ...
Page 2199
... first panic which had feized them when the French firft mounted the walls . Reduced to this extremity , the governor demanded a capitulation , which was readily granted on his own terms . The inhabitants were par- doned for the ...
... first panic which had feized them when the French firft mounted the walls . Reduced to this extremity , the governor demanded a capitulation , which was readily granted on his own terms . The inhabitants were par- doned for the ...
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... first appeared in arms . It was urged against her , that she had taken upon herself a military command . This she did not deny , but faid , her fole motive for taking that step , was to deliver France from its foreign enemies . Being ...
... first appeared in arms . It was urged against her , that she had taken upon herself a military command . This she did not deny , but faid , her fole motive for taking that step , was to deliver France from its foreign enemies . Being ...
Page 2205
... first place they entered appeared to have been a hall , which was large , and in it two long tables with benches on each fide , which they no fooner touched to feel their substance , but they crumbled into duft . From thence they saw a ...
... first place they entered appeared to have been a hall , which was large , and in it two long tables with benches on each fide , which they no fooner touched to feel their substance , but they crumbled into duft . From thence they saw a ...
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Page 2614 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
Page 2441 - The North Briton," in which I have been named or even alluded to, was written by...
Page 2374 - The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns and roofed by the bottoms of those, which have been broke off in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic matter has exuded, which serves to define the angles precisely, and at the same time vary the colour with a great deal of elegance, and to render it still more agreeable, the whole is lighted from without...
Page 2374 - ... from without, and the air within, being agitated by the flux and reflux of the tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome, free entirely from the damp vapours with which natural caverns in general abound.
Page 2285 - ... of both which sciences his knowledge was entirely confined to theory. Even physic was not without a charm to allure his imagination, and he would talk of Galen, Hippocrates, and Paracelsus, with all the confidence and familiarity of a modern empiric.
Page 2613 - Sennar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him, that was the route, by which I was anxious that Africa might, if possible, be explored. He said, he should think himself singularly fortunate to be trusted with the adventure. I asked him when he would set out.
Page 2352 - She might be about twenty- four or five years of age, a time of life when the bloom of beauty has generally fled the cheek in India ; but...
Page 2442 - Martin's making his i : mediate efcape, and no creature fhould know from Mr. Wilkes how the affair happened. Upon this they parted ; but Mr. Martin came up again in two or three minutes to Mr. Wilkes, offering him a fecond time his affiftance ; but Mr.
Page 2357 - It is impossible, for there is but one in the world; that is in the Grand Signior's library at Constantinople, and is the seventh book on the second shelf on the right hand as you go in.
Page 2405 - ... merely by throwing open, for a moment, a door opening into some passage from whence fresh air may be had, and the upper part of a window; or by opening the upper part of one window, and the lower part of another.